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Short Fiction from

Australia and the Indian Subcontinent

Edited by Dr Meenakshi Bharat and Dr Sharon Rundle.

Relatively True, Stories of Truth, Deception, Post-Truth

from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia

Edited by Meenakshi Bharat & Sharon Rundle

Orient BlackSwan, India, 2022

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Apple Books at https://books.apple.com/us/book/relatively-true/id6443119885

T he Kindle e-book edition is available for sale on Amazon

Amazon India: www.amazon.in/dp/B0B7WGLPQP

Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0B7WGLPQP

Print copies at: Book Depository Blackwell’s

Browns Books Or Publisher: Orient BlackSwan

Contributing authors: Shirley Hazzard, Eugen Bacon, Gulzar, Meenakshi Bharat, Alex Cothren, Tony Birch, Devika Brendon, Sharon Rundle, Cate Kennedy, Anne Benjamin, Sujata Sankranti, Kate Grenville, Priya Sarrukai Chabria, Andrew Kwong, Mitra Phukan, Bashabi Fraser, Yasmine Gooneratne, Rashida Murphy, Sunil Badami, Niharika Chibber Joe, Matt Lupton, Susanne Gervay, Janhavi Acharekar, Gayatri Gill, Julia Prendergast. Proem by Dr Roanna Gonsalves.

Foreword by His Excellency, The Australian High Commissioner to India, The Honourable Mr Barry O’Farrell AO.

ISBN: 978-93-5442-305-5.

Available now! Glass Walls $20.00 + Shipping Australia only Buy now

Glass Walls: Stories of Tolerance and Intolerance from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia : Meenakshi Bharat, Sharon Rundle: Amazon.com.au: Books

Launch of

Glass Walls: Stories of Tolerance and Intolerance

from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia

Edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle

published Orient BlackSwan 2019

https://orientblackswan.com/Glass Walls

Contributing authors: Anu Kumar, Bruce Pascoe, David Malouf, Debra Adelaide, Elizabeth Jolley, Janhavi Acharekar, Joginder Paul, Julia Mackay-Koelen, Julie Simpson, Kamala Wijeratne, Keki N Daruwalla, Libby Sommer, Meenakshi Bharat, Nandini C Sen, Neelum Saran Gour, Roanna Gonsalves, Rupleena Bose, Sharon Rundle, Sue Parker, Sujata Sankranti, Trilok Chand Ghai, and Vashti Farrer.

Foreword by Mr Amit Dasgupta University of New South Wales inaugural India Country Director, distinguished former Indian diplomat, author and educator.

Only Connect: Short fiction about Technology and Us $15.00 + Shipping Australia only Buy now

Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle bring you another exciting volume of Short Stories from Australia and the Indian subcontinent, in which eminent authors including Linda Jaivin, Jamil Ahmad,Sujata Sankranti, Arnold Zable, Susanne Gervay, Amitav Ghosh, Deepa Agarwal, Ali Alizadeh, Joginder Paul, Michelle Cahill, Sophie Masson, Anu Kumar, Abdul Karim Hekmat, Bijoya Sawian, Andrew Y M Kwong, Julia Mackay-Koelen, Tabish Khair, Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle explore the theme of refugees and asylum seekers. A foreword by Rosie Scott gives the stories context and articulates the theme that underpins the stories. A variety of perspectives takes this volume of short fiction into some surprising new territory. From the moving to the shocking, these tales will linger in the reader’s mind.

ONLY CONNECT!: SHORT FICTION ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND US FROM THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AND AUSTRALIA | Rupa Publications

Fear Factor

Fear Factor Terror Incognito $15.00 + Shipping Australia only

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Fear Factor: Terror Incognito is a collection of 20 unforgettable stories by well-known and emerging authors from Australia and the Indian subcontinent including David Malouf, Salman Rushdie, Neelum Saran Gour, Tom Keneally, Rosie Scott, Jeremy Fisher, Susanne Gervay, Tabish Khair, Denise Leith, Andrew Y M Kwong, Devika Brendon, Gulzar, Meera Kant, Guy Scotton, Sujata Sankranti, Kiran Nargarkar, Temsula Ao, Jaspreet Singh, Janhavi Acharekar and Meenakshi Bharat; with a foreword by Yasmine Gooneratne.

A unique collaboration between Australia and India, the stories represent these writers protests against the phenomenon of modern terror. They do not offer solutions. Instead, they lead readers along the hidden paths of an unfamiliar psychology to make their own discoveries.

A joint publication with Picador UK and Picador India, Fear Factor: Terror Incognito is essential reading for anyone interested the global phenomenon of terror. Fear Factor Terror Incognito by Sharon Rundle | Goodreads

GLASS WALLS Stories of Tolerance and Intolerance Media clips and images.

Video Meenakshi Bharat speaks at Glass Walls book launch in Delhi.

Launched in 2019 in Delhi by Her Excellency Ms Harinder Sidhu Australian High Commissioner to India, in Sydney by Shri Ramanand Garge, Director Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center, Sydney, with Susanne Gervay OAM as MC, and in Melbourne by Dr Devika Brendon at the Australian Short Story Festival 2019.

Slides of launch in Delhi, India.

UNSW launch of Glass Walls – Presentation to Mr Ramanand Garge.

Sharon Rundle vote of thanks at UNSW Glass Walls launch

Sharon Rundle at ASSF Glass Walls launch.

South Asian Film, Art and Literature 2019.

SAFAL Festival

Discussion of Tolerance and Intolerance with Debra Adelaide, Roanna Gonsalves, Devika Brendon, Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle at Australian Short Story Festival 2019 Glass Walls launch.

UNSW book launch of Glass Walls: Stories of Tolerance and Intolerance from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia, Orient BlackSwan 2019. Special Guest Shri Ramanand Garge. Authors Sharon Rundle, Julie Simpson, Susanne Gervay, Vashti Farrer, Roanna Gonsalves and Libby Sommer, co-editor Meenakshi Bharat on screen.

Delhi Launch. Orient Black Swan and The Australian High Commission in Delhi, India book launch, special guest Her Excellency Ms Harinder Sidhu Australian High Commissioner to India, Mr Amit Dasgupta, Sukrita Kumar Paul (with co-editor Dr Meenakshi Bharat).